It appears that there are posters on here who are not concerned at all with the thousands of children killed in the Syrian Civil War even though this is the Middle East forum.
One in Every 10 People Killed in Syria's War Is a Child
Once again we're reminded that it's not just those who choose to put themselves in harm's way who die during a war.
November 29, 2013 By Michael Todd
About one in 10 of the people who have been killed so far in the Syrian civil war are children. Of those 11,400 people under age 17 known to have died, the largest number2,233died in Aleppo Governate, Syrias most populous province and among its most restive. Nonetheless, on a per capita basis the worst place in Syria to be a child right now is Daraa (to the right of the Golan Heights and bordering Jordan), where one in 400 children have been killed during the uprising. In comparison, just under one in a thousand children in Aleppo have died. So report Hamit Dardagan and Hana Salama in a new white paper from the NGO Oxford Research Group (committed to the principle that every life lost to armed violence should be properly recognized).
In war it used to be that casualty counts were all about the battlefieldhow many of my soldiers died killing how many of your soldiers. It was a useful metric for combat prowess, but generals then started looking at a more comprehensive set of figures that included how many soldiers were dying of disease. Its only been recently that any army could count on losing more guys to the enemy than to General Microbe. (Heres an interesting short book published after the U.S. Civil War showing how fit soldiers die in much greater proportions than their civilian counterparts.) The annals of warfare include numerous instances where invaders were stopped in their tracks by dysentery or dengue fever before ever meeting the main forces of their human foe.
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One in Every 10 People Killed in Syria's War Is a Child
One in Every 10 People Killed in Syria's War Is a Child
Once again we're reminded that it's not just those who choose to put themselves in harm's way who die during a war.
November 29, 2013 By Michael Todd
About one in 10 of the people who have been killed so far in the Syrian civil war are children. Of those 11,400 people under age 17 known to have died, the largest number2,233died in Aleppo Governate, Syrias most populous province and among its most restive. Nonetheless, on a per capita basis the worst place in Syria to be a child right now is Daraa (to the right of the Golan Heights and bordering Jordan), where one in 400 children have been killed during the uprising. In comparison, just under one in a thousand children in Aleppo have died. So report Hamit Dardagan and Hana Salama in a new white paper from the NGO Oxford Research Group (committed to the principle that every life lost to armed violence should be properly recognized).
In war it used to be that casualty counts were all about the battlefieldhow many of my soldiers died killing how many of your soldiers. It was a useful metric for combat prowess, but generals then started looking at a more comprehensive set of figures that included how many soldiers were dying of disease. Its only been recently that any army could count on losing more guys to the enemy than to General Microbe. (Heres an interesting short book published after the U.S. Civil War showing how fit soldiers die in much greater proportions than their civilian counterparts.) The annals of warfare include numerous instances where invaders were stopped in their tracks by dysentery or dengue fever before ever meeting the main forces of their human foe.
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One in Every 10 People Killed in Syria's War Is a Child
